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Dave - read your bio - thanks for writing it. My heart goes out to you as you take care of your wife. My wife was in a serious roll-over accident over 4 months ago and is still in recovery. I know what kind of energy it takes to help nurse a loved one. Sending you positive energy filled...

Greetings Stefan, Thanks for the quick response. I am going to pass your numbers on to our ink company. 11:46 pm in California - way past my bedtime - goodnight. -Bill-

Greetings Stephen Here are 3 from the Esko table: PMS 100 L* 92.04 a* -7.55 b* 65.76 PMS 101 L* 91.77 a* -7.51 b* 75.13 PMS 102 L* 90.24 a* -4.87 b* 106.28 Here are the numbers the ink company gave me: PMS 100 L* 92.14 a* -7.54 b* 63.91 PMS 101 L* 91.85 a* -7.58 b* 72.43 PMS 102 L*...

Greetings, We use the Esko front end to drive our HP 6600. This front end uses the Pantone Plus digital file to convert PMS colors to various percentages of CMYKOVG. When checking the Lab values for colors in our file against the Pantone Plus digital file that our ink company uses there are...

Hilarious twist to the end of this post - some of you have some great printing humor - laughing too hard got to run to the bathroom.

Greetings, Check out this URL: FFEI | Digital prepress tools - RealPro Toolkit - FFEI Have no experience with this product, butL looks like a good alternative.

Stephen, I am running OS10.9.2 and Acrobat X1 (11.0.0). I only have the Black & White.icc profile on my computer and cannot see it in Acrobat, nor Photoshop CS6 (13.0). Additionally in Edit Object>ObjectProperties Color Tab I do not have an option to convert to Black & White. The only, what...

Greetings, Quick search did not find anything on this. I have a customer that wants to create proofs on an Epson Stylus Photo R3000 that will match our presses, such I presently do using my CGS rip and Epson 4800. I have heard of people creating color managed proofs via Photoshop but have no...

Greetings Stephen, I am aware of and have used the curve tool in CGS to make minor adjustments in the past to the highlight, quarter and mid tone areas. However this is the most radical curve I have had to build, and this is this most radical highlight TVI from a press run I have experienced...

Can X-Rite i1iO scan in M1 measurement mode? I did a similar test like Stephens. I have attached a PDF with information on test and results. Based on my results, I will not lose any sleep. -Bill-

Hi Rich Yes that TVI is possible in flexo depending on the print package. This particular print package is using analog plates on a poly substrate. Ink likes to "spread" on that substrate and analog plates do not hold as small a highlight dot as digital plates do. Labels if designed properly...

Hi Stephen, I am always use the ORIS DAT color table option and proof as absolute. The white point of the profile is L 92, a -1, b 0. However we are presently on a 3 day weekend in the States, I know what a burden to have, and I will not be back in the office until Tuesday so I cannot not supply...

We are running a poly substrate on a flexo press. Raw measurement data analyzed in ColorAnt indicates gain at 2% (1.96% in report) to be 22 - 24%. Press target was IT8.7-4. After I make a profile, using iProfiler, I check the gain at 2% in ColorThink and it indicates it is around 7%. When I...

Just curious why you feel you need to make sure the next printer has print ready files. I realize there is some political gain in playing nice with customers that take some of the work you printed for them to another printer. But is it your responsibility to do anymore than send the original...

Greeting Stefan, Thanks - I love to be educated. I have discovered as I age that while education is sometimes a challenge, an even bigger challenge is to remember what I have learned :-)

You can check this by sending a file through your no K color strategy with graphics that include CMYK and PMS colors and then check the results in viewer. You will need to make your own profile to insure it is a true snapshot of your press.

Which ISOCOATED v 2 are you referring to, U.S. Sheetfed Coated, or U.S. Web Coated (SWOP), or ? Doesn't matter for the process, just wondering. I would suggest that you use and IT8 target and reference and run the target through your HP linear queue. Profilemaker 5 includes MeasureTool so use...

Greetings Stephen, What TVI do you think you would have measured if the dots were not printed as a donuts? I have tested NX plates on semi gloss and they do print some small dots - but we all know that film substrates have their own unique dot lay down challenges. Have you any photos of gray...

The knowledge that only so many PMS colors can be accurately express using CMYK is why I have created a book that will have two patches of the same color next to each other. One patch is printed using only CMYK and the other is printed using additional colors (OGV) as the rip dictates. The...

Being a flexo printer, we have an HP Indigo that I am working with, we always print PMS colors as spot colors. How does the offset group figure out how to print a spot (PMS) color "accurately" using CMYK? I know the Pantone has a PMS to CMYK guide but if the PMS book is only a "guide", then is...